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You may have heard of "phishing". Why it’s spelt like that I have no idea, but the name is an apt one. Phishing e-mails are created to appear as if they have been sent to you by a trusted organisation, like a bank or insurance company. Their purpose is usually to direct you to a phoney website, created to look like the home page of your bank, for instance. Once you’re there, the site will try any number of tricks to get you to fill in information that could be used to access your bank accounts, or even to assume your identity. In other words, they’re fishing for information.

Classic Phishing e-mails use lines such as: "there is a problem with your account", or "we are performing routine maintenance/an account upgrade/an identity check". Mercury: Dont become a victim of phishing